Whatever happened to having fun? When Season 4 of The Flash began, the showrunners appeared determined to deliver more fun superhero fare than the bummer that was Season 3. Perhaps the showrunners were a bit too eager to course correct in the early going, but the show hit its lighthearted stride with episodes like “Luck […]
If you read my Supergirl review from yesterday, then you know the basic setup of “Crisis on Earth-X”: Nazis from a parallel Earth crash Barry and Iris’s wedding, and the assembled heroes fight them. “Crisis on Earth-X, Part 3” picks up where Part 2 (as seen on Arrow) left off, with several of the heroes […]
Season 4 of The Flash has been a blast thus far, so it’s only fair that you get the occasional dud. Such is the case with “When Harry Met Harry…,” an episode whose title references a popular 80s romantic comedy but won’t have you screaming “YES!” in ecstasy. In fact, “When Harry Met Harry…” leaves […]
As someone who watched and reviewed every episode of Season 3 of The Flash, I’m astounded by the 180-degree turn the show has made in Season 4. A show formerly obsessed with dour navel gazing, The Flash is now fun and fresh without being cloying. The positive environment makes it an ideal time for the […]
In Season 4 of The Flash, the series is taking its mission to be funny and lighthearted seriously. Nowhere is this more apparent than in “Luck Be A Lady,” an episode that features more jokes and smiles than most of Season 3. In another welcome change, we get an antagonist with a background and a […]
Notwithstanding the episode title, “Mixed Signals” clearly makes its intentions known: namely, to deliver an hour (including commercials) of Flash-focused fun. This is a welcomed development after a season premiere focused on clearing the cobwebs from the collective downer that was Season 3. While “Mixed Signals” is still somewhat tangled up in the plot strands […]
Let’s face it, tiger: Season 3 of The Flash was a muddled, depressing mess. The dominant story point of last season was having Barry fix his problems through time travel, only to cause bigger problems to get increasingly maudlin about. The tone of the show had gotten so dark that when Barry went into the […]
As a critic, I try my best to be fair minded. Putting together 22 episodes a season, each of which is nearly an hour long once you take commercials into account, is a momentous undertaking. Given that the showrunners for The Flash have produced what amounts to six Titanics, it’s unreasonable to expect the season […]
As a TV critic for Entertainment Fuse, I’ve covered two of the CW’s signature superhero shows, Supergirl and The Flash, which has been a somewhat schizophrenic experience to say the least. When Monday evening rolls around I look forward to watching Supergirl—the highest compliment I can pay the show is that I would watch it faithfully […]
In my Season 3 reviews of The Flash, I’ve pointed to one recurring character who has consistently impeded the show’s progress and has made it considerably less fun to watch and write about. That character is Barry Allen, or Mopey Barry as I’ve taken to calling him. Throughout this Flash season, Mopey Barry has been […]
